Jazzer ruins it for himself when he trips (while mucking around to the Foo Fighters … another pop hit parade combo), puts a hand on the pain job, and spills the rest of the tin of paint. So, he’ll have to strip back what he’s done, and start again.

This time, Ed will buy the paint.

Chris doesn’t even want Freda’s pie!

(sorry … that was very childish of me)

It’s steak pie. Which Tom is muchly enjoying, at The Bull.

[Tom] “Don't quote me, but it beats Brenda's any day of the week.”

Chris doesn’t want to eat. He just wants to drink, even though Susan would have him over for his tea. Tom can’t comprehend of someone not wanting their tea.

[Tom] “So what have you got waiting for you at home?”

[Chris] “Nothing.”

(literally)

Seems Chris is on a mission, and Tom suggests he slow down his pint intake.

Actually, Tom does have a point. Chris is starting to talk nonsense. When Tom asked him how his footy was going:

[Chris] “I'm a wanderer who goes all the way over to Paxley, my wife, who isn't a wanderer, is about 5,000 miles away.”

On Alice – Tom thinks she’ll get it out of her system just through knowing she could get a top rate job. She won’t actually accept it. Chris reckons she will.

So Tom reckons it’d be exciting for Chris to go to Canada.

[Chris] “Me? How can I go to Canada?”

[Tom] “It's about trying to see things from her perspective.”

(ha! As if Tom can say that of himself)

[Chris] “Why? She can't see things from mine.”

Though Tom can sympathise with Chris over having problems with his ‘woman’, he reckons he and Brenda:

[Tom] “Underneath, we're solid. And so are you and Alice.”

(hmmm . I wouldn’t be so sure on either count)

Anyhoo – Chris gets drunk to the point he gets refused by Kenton. Luckily, Jazzer came along with pints, saving Chris from Tom’s refusal to buy more. And Tom’s insistent on taking him home to make a sandwich.

(what is wrong with Jazzer? Why is he suddenly happy to buy other folks pints?)

[Jazzer] “Leave him alane. His missus is away. Let him finish his pint and have a laugh for once.”

Fair play to Jazzer.

But later, Jazzer and Tom have to take Chris home, and put a washing up bowl next to him.